In & around the SEC: Week 13
Alabama Week 12 recap
The Crimson Tide easily defeated Western Carolina, 49-0, to improve to 10-1 overall on the season. After jumping out to a 42-0 first half lead, Alabama was able to rest several starters and key players in the second half. The Tide welcomes Auburn into Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday (Nov. 24) for the Iron Bowl.
Auburn
Billingsley steps down as GCHS football coach
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
For the first time since it opened in 2006, Gadsden City High is looking for a football coach.
Joe Billingsley resigned last Friday (Nov. 16), leaving the school to go into search mode.
“We’ll be forming a committee of four or five people who are closely aligned with the program,” GCHS athletic director Carl Hunter
Eagle’s Estes selected to state hall of fame
By Ron Ingram/For AHSAA
Longtime Hokes Bluff High head baseball coach Mike Estes was one of 12 persons recently selected to the 23nd class of the Alabama High School Athletic Association Sports Hall of Fame.
Following graduation from Jacksonville State in 1973, the 1968 Hokes Bluff graduate returned to his alma mater in 1975 and began a 34-year coaching
Lady Jackets getting back to basics
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
If there is one thing that Glencoe High is proud of, it’s the girl’s basketball teams. And the success of that program.
So whatever happened in 2011 is history to be forgotten, just a blip on the old record book.
“If there was a streak to be ended, we ended it last year,” Yellow Jackets
Tough schedule awaits Lady Eagles
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
Can Hokes Bluff follow last year’s phenomenal season of going 28-5 and playing in the Northeast Regional with another season of that magnitude?
With a very tough schedule and three senior starters graduated, coach Jason Shields isn’t sure of what type of record this team may finish with.
“We’re playing a lot of tough teams
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
This week we celebrate Thanksgiving, and, in my opinion, it could not come soon enough.
This year has been filled with political fights, Hurricane Sandy and a scandal involving the head of the CIA.
With all of that, it can be easy to get consumed with the bad and forget all the good we have in our lives.
So it
Early Etowah County pioneer Joseph Wilson
A boy and girl romance that started in Buncombe County, North Carolina, in the late 1830’s ended in Etowah County in 1840 when Joseph Wilson married Celia Edwards, daughter of Thomas C. Edwards, and a direct descendant of Jonathon Edwards of New York.
Young Joseph Wilson had followed the Edwards family to Etowah County from North Carolina. He bought a
Altoona kicks off Christmas parade season
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Kevin Wilbert is praying for good weather the evening of Nov. 30, when the Altoona Christmas Parade will makes its way through the west Etowah County town, with at least 120 or 130 entries.
“It’s looking really good for the parade,” organizer Wilbert said. “We may have 140 entries like last year.”
This year’s parade
Tour homes with the Woman’s Club
It is time to get tickets for the Gadsden’s Woman’s Club Holiday Tour of homes — a longtime Gadsden tradition. Gadsden’s Woman’s Club Holiday Tour will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 2.
Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. For advance tickets call the Club House 256-547-2311, the Gadsden Museum of Art at 256-546-7365, or